That worked perfectly.  Thanks, Craig. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Craig McClanahan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:36 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Users List
> Subject: Re: What tool can I use to substitute marked 
> expressions in a string?
> 
> On 2/28/07, Karr, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I know that there are several related tools in this area, 
> but I'm not 
> > sure from a superficial look exactly which one I need.
> >
> > I just need to have a string with occurrences of substrings like 
> > "${foo}", and I need to be able to replace that with a 
> value specified 
> > at run time.  I need to do this directly from Java, and I nee to be 
> > able to specify both the variables (like "foo") and what 
> values will 
> > be substituted for them.
> >
> > I thought I would do this with JEXL, but that seems to just take a 
> > string like "foo" and not "... Stuff ... ${foo} ...".  I imagine I 
> > could do this semi-manually, by searching for "${.*}" and 
> processing 
> > the contents.  If there's no packaged way to do this 
> already, I'll go 
> > down that path.
> >
> 
> Have a look at Digester's "org.apache.commons.digester.substitution"
> package.  From the javadocs, it looks like 
> MultiVariableExpander can do what you're asking for.

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